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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Lewisham 1943

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]

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Table: PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS DISEASE.Number of cases notified (omitting Tuberculosis) and Deaths during the year 1943.

PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS DISEASE.

Number of cases notified (omitting Tuberculosis) and Deaths during the year 1943.

Disease.Total cases Notified.Cases admitted to Hospital.Total Deaths.
Cerebro-Spinal Fever881
Diphtheria26260
Scabies51500
Dysentery23230
Enteric Fever100
Erysipelas57220
Food Poisoning200
Measles12701274
Ophthalmia Neonatorum1780
Pneumonia17663111
Puerperal Fever110
Puerperal Pyrexia20203
Scarlet Fever6836561
Whooping Cough219898
TOTALS.30181043128
Scabies was notifiable from 1st August, 1943.

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